E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* Robert E. Cox ( 1917 – 1989 ) who conducted the " Gleanings for ATMs " column in Sky and Telescope magazine for 21 years.

* 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany ( see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress ).

* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British surrealist painter ( d. 2011 )

* 1917 – World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans.

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1877 – Léon Flameng, French cyclist ( d. 1917 )

* 1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player ( d. 1986 )

* 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.

* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )

Category: Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences ( 1917 – 1925 )

* 1917 – Sid Gordon, American baseball player ( d. 1975 )

* 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer ( b. 1868 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* 1917 – Les Elgart, American trumpet player and bandleader ( d. 1995 )

* 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician ( b. 1849 )

Bloch was highly interdisciplinary, influenced by the geography of Paul Vidal de la Blache ( 1845 – 1918 ) and the sociology of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).

* 1860 – Alan Leo, English astrologer ( d. 1917 )

* 1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy ( d. 1917 )

* 1838 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and aircraft manufacturer ( d. 1917 )

* 1849 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician ( d. 1917 )

The Gregorian Calendar was instituted in Russia by the Bolsheviks in 1917, Romania accepted it in 1919 under king Ferdinand of Romania ( 1 November 1919 became 14 November 1919 ), Turkey in 1923 under Ataturk, and the last Orthodox country to accept the calendar was Greece also in 1923.

* September 28 – Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines ( b. 1917 )

* July 8 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German military officer and founder of the Zeppelin Company ( d. 1917 )

* Ferdinand Marcos ( 1917 – 1989 ), tenth president of the Philippines

* Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( 1838 – 1917 ), German airship mogul

* Pfohl, Ferdinand: 5 poems (" Moon-rondels, fantastic scenes from ' Pierrot Lunaire '") for voice and piano ( 1891 ); Marschalk, Max: 5 poems for voice and piano ( 1901 ); Vrieslander, Otto: 50 poems for voice and piano ( 46 in 1905, 4 more in 1911 ); Graener, Paul: 3 poems for voice and piano ( c. 1908 ); Marx, Joseph: 4 poems for voice and piano ( 1909 ; 1 of 4, " Valse de Chopin ", reset for voice, piano, and string quartet in 1917 ); Schoenberg, Arnold: 21 poems for speaking voice, piano, flute ( also piccolo ), clarinet ( also bass clarinet ), violin ( also viola ), and violoncello ( 1912 ); Kowalski, Max: 12 poems for voice and piano ( 1913 ); Prohaska, Carl: 6 poems for voice and piano ( 1920 ); Lothar, Mark: 1 poem for voice and piano ( 1921 ).

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos ( September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989 ) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.

Ferdinand Edralin Marcos was born September 11, 1917, in the town of Sarrat, Ilocos Norte to parents Mariano Marcos and Josefa Edralin.

* son: Ferdinand W. Roebling ( b. 1842, d. 1917 )

* Ferdinand Schörner, decorated as a Leutnant in December 1917, later a field marshal in World War II.

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ( October 26, 1849 – August 3, 1917 ) was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations and to group theory.

* Ferdinand Georg Frobenius ( 1849 – 1917 ), mathematician

* Schevill, Ferdinand, Karl Bitter – A Biography, University of Chicago Press, Chicago Illinois, 1917

Dragutin Dimitrijević ( Serbian Cyrillic: Драгутин Димитријевић ; also known as Apis ( Апис ); August 17, 1876, Belgrade – June 11, 24, or 27, 1917 ) was a Serbian soldier and leader of the Black Hand group implicated with assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria in 1914.

* Ferdinand Tönnies ( 1855 – 1936 ), in 1917 by German emperor King Wilhelm II of Prussia

Princess Eleonore Caroline Gasparine Louise Reuss of Köstritz ( 22 August 1860 – 12 September 1917 ) was Tsaritsa of Bulgaria and the second wife of Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria.

# Ferdinand Joseph Robidoux, Conservative ( 1911 – 1917 )

* Gen-Lt. Ferdinand graf von Zeppelin ( 1838 – 1917 ), aviator, inventor of the airship, and founder of Zeppelin Airship Company

State Highway 3-A was an original state highway proposed in 1917, splitting from the main route at Houston and roughly parallelling it to the north through La Grange and ending at San Marcos.